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On Dec 31, 2010, at 5:28 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:22 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>> John Purrier wrote:
>>> 1.       Bexar will present a version 1.0 OpenStack API based on the 1.0
>>> Rackspace Cloud Servers API. The OpenStack namespace will be set up and
>>> published, and tools will be available that manipulate Nova via the
>>> OpenStack API. Any functionality that is not yet implemented will be
>>> documented in the developer’s guide.
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Rick/Thierry, if we have work items for Bexar that are not covered in
>>> order to complete this plan let’s highlight them ASAP. Also, can we
>>> verify that the management tools are in progress?
>> 
>>> From where I stand, there were no discussions around this subject at the
>> design summit, and no blueprints filed about API coverage or
>> command-line tools... so I assume nobody is actually working
>> specifically on that. If I'm wrong and someone owns this, please let me
>> know.
>> 
>> The Bexar development window is now closing (January 6th is
>> BranchMergeProposalFreeze), so the Bexar objectives sound a bit
>> optimistic. How about making sure we have a plan and the resources
>> assigned to execute it during the Cactus timeframe ?
> 
> ++
> 
> I'm sorry, but I don't believe it is realistic to do API extensions
> for Bexar.  As Thierry said, no blueprints were filed at the summit on
> API extension, no discussions occurred at the summit about it, and
> although Andy has some example/prototype code, I'm sure he would admit
> that his code was meant, at least so far, to spur discussion and not
> necessarily be merged into trunk right away.
> 
> I concur with Thierry that Cactus would be a better timeframe for
> implementing API extensibility. It would allow for the proper amount
> of discussion on this topic to occur.
> 

Right.  API extensions are part of the OpenStack compute API 1.1. Step 4 states that that's not in the roadmap until Cactus.  Step 1 is an implementation of the existing Cloud Servers API 1.0 as it exists today -- without extension support, the idea is that this should be available in Bexar.  Thierry, are you saying that we're not on track for that?

-jOrGe W.



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